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Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

Book, Perfect, Batteries

The only religions I don't like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God.

Bigger

Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.

Past, Idiot, Persons

Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

The most important things are the hardest to say

I Love You, Valentines Day, Communication

Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.309, Simon and Schuster

The brain is a muscle that can move the world.

Moving, Learning, Brain

Stephen King (2016). “Firestarter”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

Halloween, Keys, Awful

Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.315, Anchor

A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.

Dog, Successful, Missing

When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.

Hurt, Pain, Apples

The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows

Heart, Mind, Spirit

Stephen King (2006). “Cell: A Novel”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

Giving Up, Library, Failing

Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.

Fear, Ifs

Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.315, Anchor

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right — as right as you can, anyway — it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it.

Writing, Doors, Stories

Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.

Wise, Dream, Children

Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.449, Anchor

JK Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever

Book, Forever, Soul

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

Motivational, Don't Give Up, Talent

Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.559, Simon and Schuster

Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying.

Dying, Growing, Talent

Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

Inspirational, Hope, Redemption

"'Different Seasons' ('Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption')". Book by Stephen King, 1982.

When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

Writing, Past, Fiction

Stephen King (2014). “Joyland”, p.32, Titan Books

No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.

Fake People, Heart, Bad Friend

Stephen King (1987). “It: 2”, Signet

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

People, Mad, Trying

"The Stand". Book by Stephen King, September 1978.

Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.

Growing Up, Heart, Thinking

It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.

Beautiful, Sometimes, Boring

Stephen King (2016). “Insomnia”, p.870, Simon and Schuster

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.

Sad, Heartbreak, Thinking

Stephen King (1999). “Hearts In Atlantis”, p.443, Simon and Schuster

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

Monsters, Criminal Mind, Sometimes

There are all sorts of theories and ideas about what constitutes a good opening line. It's tricky thing, and tough to talk about because I don't think conceptually while I work on a first draft -- I just write. To get scientific about it is a little like trying to catch moonbeams in a jar. But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.

Writing, Thinking, Ideas

FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jul 23, 2013

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